Replay from a snapshot, blocks.log, or V1 History archive

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Optional

This step is optional to save time when syncing a node. If it is skipped, the node will sync from genesis and can take several hours.

To save time on startup, your node may be bootstrapped with a snapshot of data from a running node. Refer to Nodeos Replay for instructions on replaying from a snapshot, blocks.log, or V1 History archive.

Confirm nodeos P2P nodes

Edit the settings for nodeos:

sudo vi /etc/fio/nodeos/config.ini

P2P nodes are updated more frequently than the .deb package, if there are a large number of P2P nodes that are unreachable, it's possible to get a list of healthy nodes from the FIO Mainnet Health page..

V1 History configuration

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Optional

If the light-history (v1 history) feature is needed, make sure the following parameters are set in your config.ini

plugin = eosio::history_plugin
plugin = eosio::history_api_plugin
filter-on = *
filter-out = eosio:onblock:
history-per-account = 9223372036854775807
history-index-state-db-size-mb = 1000000
history-state-db-size-mb = 4000000

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Warning

Without the history-index-state-db-size-mb and history-state-db-size-mb settings nodes may stop with the warning: Database has reached an unsafe level of usage, shutting down to avoid corrupting the database. Please increase the value set for chain-state-db-size-mb and restart the process!

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Large history indexes

Thehistory-per-accountsetting will truncate the number of actions stored for an account. Given the number of potential internal-actions called in each trace, it may be desirable to decrease this number if the history indexes become too large. Otherwise, keeping it at the max is recommended.

Run nodeos

Installed from packages

Enable nodeos daemon at runtime, and start:

sudo systemctl enable fio-nodeos
sudo systemctl start fio-nodeos

Block processing including synchronization will show in the logs:

tail -f /var/log/fio/nodeos.log

Installed from source

cd ~/fio/3.5/bin/
./nodeos --config-dir ~/fio/3.5/bin --genesis-json ./genesis.json

Validate your node

First, query /get_info against your node and confirm the chain_id as well as the server_version_string show the correct values.

Chain ID: 21dcae42c0182200e93f954a074011f9048a7624c6fe81d3c9541a614a88bd1c

Using clio:

/usr/local/bin/clio -u http://localhost:8888 get info

Using curl:

curl -s -X GET 'http://localhost:8888/v1/chain/get_info' | jq '.chain_id'

Next, confirm some of the other FIO API getter calls.

If you are running a V1 History node, confirm access to past transactions through get_actions:

curl --request POST \
     --url http://localhost:8888/v1/history/get_actions \
     --data '{"account_name": "o3vozszmxmto"}'

There is also an advanced FIO table browsing tool called Cryptonym that is useful for testing. You can download Cryptonym from the Blockpane repository.

Enable fio-wallet

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Optional

Enabling the fio-wallet is only necessary if you are using fio-wallet to manage your user's keys.

Most users won't need to run the fio-wallet service, as a system-controlled daemon running under apparmor confinement, but may opt to run it as a dynamically launched daemon when using clio wallet commands.

To enable fio-wallet daemon at boot time, running under the fio account, and to start the daemon:

sudo systemctl enable fio-wallet
sudo systemctl start fio-wallet

When running under systemctl, the wallet files will be located in /var/lib/fio/fio-wallet/fio-wallet (the location can be changed in /var/lib/fio/fio-wallet/config.ini. Note that when starting via systemctl apparmor will confine the daemon, possibly causing problems with file permissions.)

Some users might rely on fio-wallet to store a large number of keys. Although this is not recommended, some specific settings might be necessary when launching a node:

max-body-size=(2048x2048)
http-max-bytes-in-flight-mb=5000

When dynamically launched via clio commands the wallet will default to $HOME/fio-wallet

For more information refer to the fio-wallet overview.